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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in elearning technology have empowered people all over the world to take classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can learners make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Isle of Man to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. People want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also researches the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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